EW's Breakout Stars of 2002
Bow Wow
John Mayer
Maggie Gyllenhaal
Alice Sebold
Gregory Smith
Ashanti
Josh Groban
Brittany Snow
Trying to prognosticate which newcomers will still be relevant a decade later is a tricky business. But even if Alice Sebold has yet to produce a work as zeitgeisty as The Lovely Bones, even if Gregory Smith and Brittany Snow have struggled to find signature roles post-Everwood/American Dreams, and even if Bow Wow never quite lived up to his work in, ahem, Like Mike — let us credit where credit is due. EW's Breakout list 10 years ago included future Oscar nominee Maggie Gyllenhaal, perpetual top-seller/tabloid fodder John Mayer, and Josh Groban, who has carved out an utterly unique role for himself in pop culture. The Groban abides.
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